Flora of Venezuela

These rainforests are increasingly endangered by mining and logging activities.

[1][2][3] Venezuela's habitats range from the Andes mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rainforest in the south, via extensive Llanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.

They include xeric scrublands in the extreme northwest and coastal mangrove forests in the northeast.

[4] Its cloud forests and lowland rainforests are particularly rich, for example hosting over 25,000 species of orchids.

[5] These include the flor de mayo orchid (Cattleya mossiae), the national flower.